Big (Smokeless) Tobacco Suing City Over Ban

What hypocracy! Ever look up Nicorette? It comes in Fresh Mint "coated for intense flavor", Cinnamon Surge (also coated for intense flavor), White Ice Mint (with teeth whiteners!), and Fruit Chill. Now...WHO IS selling candy flavored nicotine? And this article quotes a study. Here's a study you may be interested in. It says that 81% of underaged children who PURCHASED NICOTINE REPLACEMENT we able to do so because they were not carded. http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/Minors-able-to-buy-nicotine-replacement-therapy-products-3997-1/ And what about NYC banning NRT products? 'Cancer risk of nicotine gum and lozenges higher than thought' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6143744.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084 I just LOVE the hypocracy of the Tobacco Control cult.

its big pharmas nicotine training wheels for kids, advertised on tv and available in open site over the counter with no age restriction..sound familiar?

Are you having fun posting back and forth to yourself?

Swedish Snus does not cause cancer. There are decades of studies in Scandanavia that prove this.

Tobacco is not in an of itself cancerous. Heating it, as with many organic substances, causes the formation of nitrosamines, which cause cancer. Why it is popular in America to smoke tobacco for chewing purposes, I don't know. But there are alternatives.

What's the story behind the picture?

"The ban also includes cigars and smokeless tobacco, because a study [pdf] found that teen use of cigars and cigarillos has almost tripled in recent years."

What's the connection with smokeless tobacco? I don't see it mentioned in the study document.

Why do anti-smoking people oppose smokeless tobacco? No second-hand risks, so there goes the loudest argument against smoking. It's a way to feel the effect of nicotine, so do they also oppose the sale of nicotine gum?

Cause that shit is still bad for you, smokeless or not.

You're protecting your other pseudonyms from scorn and ridicule?

Freedom gets outlawed quite often, yet I only see you comment on tobacco.

note this too the relative risk factor of second hand smoke is a 1.1 while tap waters is a 1.24 and milks is a 2.4 yet we dont call these things carcinogens as the epa study of 1992 tried to claim... I agree 100% with the milk, it's poison and people don't realize it. the GotMilk campaign is corporate evil.

woot woot! GO BIG TOBACCO!!

Oh lord, the tobacco troll is back. I hate the tobacco companies, but this isn't a blow against the giant evil American conglomerates. It's a blow against things I actually don't mind like Kreteks. Why exactly is menthol a less evil flavor than cloves?

Because it's popular in the black community.

Do you have Google alert for "smoking and cancer" or something like that? How do you crawl out from under your rock so fast?

are you paid by the big pharma funded anti smoking goons to post? RWJF is a J&J foundation, they all profit from their own nicotine

The SmokeLess States Program

This chapter describes SmokeLess States®: National Tobacco Policy Initiative, one of the largest investments made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with $99 million authorized in grants since 1992. Primarily, grants were awarded to non-governmental organizations, with the intention that they would educate the public and policy-makers about the tobacco problem. Two features about the program are significant: (1) the Foundation encouraged its grantees to be activists; (2) advocacy was emphasized to bring about policy change. The program relied heavily on three major health voluntary organizations: the American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association. They provided financial support and, in particular, funds to help lobbying efforts which the Foundation could not support directly. In addition to insight on the effects of advocacy, this chapter offers a window into the role of coalitions in bringing about social change. The program ended in 2004 and its lasting impact has yet to be determined.

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=14912&ia=143

it's all those secret ingredients in tobacco smoke...they give you superpowers, something the gov't doesn't want you to have.

Quinn know nothing about legality and morality. She should shut the hell up.

Jinx. Too funny.

"What we did legally right, but, more importantly, it was morally right..."

Right on Christine! Just like when you rolled over and let Bloomberg take you, right? What a bastion of morality that lying, coattail rider is. She should shut the hell up.

posted similar comments at the same time -KOOL

Cute kid. Died of lung cancer in 1969.

Mu father was a cute kid and a coal miner who died of lung cancer, they pumped coal chips from hsi lungs.

I would not be surprised if that photoo is a prop from the anti smokers, just can't trust those horrible pharma funded people

I'd like to pinch that self-righteous twat 'between her cheek and gum'.

And un-American!

I fucking HATE the fact that people smoke cigs, it's lame and gross, but this law of banning selling certain kinds is fucking annoying and retarded.